Course provider has no students enrolled

Not even free computers could grow enrollment

12:54 AM,
Jun. 18, 2013

Written by

Mike Hasten
mhasten@gannett.com

State Superintendent John White is ready today to lay out for the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education a plan for funding Course Choice, an alternative education program designed to offer courses not found in all high schools.

But so far, controversial course provider FastPath Learning, which promised free computers and got hundreds of students to sign up for classes when Course Choice was first being organized, has enrolled no one under a new scaled-down program, White said Monday.

FastPath, a Texas company, had about 88 percent of the enrollment when Course Choice was first set up ...